By Marcina Zaccaria How do we present ourselves? Who will be there to see us later? The Chinese Lady begins triumphantly a woman in silks, played by Shannon Tyo, seated center stage. Afong Moy was the first female Chinese immigrant, asked to be part of a touring show. Exotic...

by Cathy Hammer A solo performance can be mesmerizing: a swirl of character and story painted with varying brushstrokes by a single talented hand. As an actor, Orlando Pabotoy has the range to provide this experience, possessing an aptitude for vivid storytelling with flashes of...

by JK Clarke There are a handful of phrases that are likely to get the attention of the FBI’s algorithms and probably should be avoided in your emails or Google searches. Things like “I’ve got a bomb,” “would you like to buy some heroin” or, say, the title...

By Barbara & Scott Siegel The British called their working class theater “Kitchen Sink Drama.” One is tempted to call the new American play created by the Neo-Futurists, “Everything Except The Kitchen Sink Drama” because in a brisk 90 minutes of playful, often-times tongue-in-cheek...

By Monica Charline Brown “If I’m gonna die I’ll live the life that frees me.” – lyric from a song the character Solvay sings in Act One of Peer Gynt and The Norwegian Hapa Band Henrik Ibsen: Norway’s most prominent playwright of the late nineteenth century...

by Michael Bracken Ma-Yi Writers Lab member Hansol Jung should be very happy with the crackerjack production her Among the Dead is receiving from the Ma-Yi Theater Company. Director Ralph B. Peňa and his design team have fashioned a moving dark comedy from Yung’s...

by Samuel L. Leiter Are you a sitcom fan? Do you enjoy watching comic stereotypes (especially Asian and gay) run through smartly formulated, if admittedly familiar, tropes played out in living room/kitchen settings, with enough comic complications...